Delta Airlines has released an updated iPhone app and an all-new iPad app. The big news for frequent fliers comes from the iPhone app. Version 2.0 of Fly Delta adds the ability to view and access your eBoarding Pass in Passbook in iOS 6 The updated iPhone app also sees the ability to purchase in-flight [...]
Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was one of the great 19th century painters. (He’s not to be confused with impressionist Claude Monet.) Manet was controversial, and stood at the crossroads of the transition from realism to impressionism. Happily, there’s a just-released collection of the best of Manet in a universal app for iOS called, appropriately, Best of [...]
If you were online at all on Thursday it was virtually impossible not to see a headline reporting on the 2013 Academy Award nominations. If you did happen to miss them, you can see all the nominees and get more information than you would ever need about every actor and film with the only official [...]
On Friday a judge approved the sale of 1,100 Kodak patents to a consortium led by Apple, Google, and Microsoft. The patent portfolio sold for US$525 million, well below Kodak’s hope to get up to $2 billion for the patents. The once all-powerful photography company Kodak is going through bankruptcy in part due to the [...]
This week’s Caturday heroes are Root (on the right) and Cisco (on the left), who are, according to owner and TUAW reader Jules F., enjoying some parallel computing. It looks like these cuties are making it twice as hard to get anything done! If you’ve got a Caturday nominee to share, let us know via [...]
Walls360 is a cool startup in Las Vegas that makes high-quality (but affordable) wall art. They’ve got the license to some great properties, like Star Trek, Plants vs. Zombies and a host of children’s books, and now they are offering nearly all of the icon artwork produced by famed designer Susan Kare. The company scored [...]
Wilson Electronics has been making cell phone signal boosters for a while now, both for home use and for larger scale settings like offices and commercial use. But the company is turning to something more personal with its new Sleek 4G cell phone booster, which is a phone stand that will make your iPhone’s signal [...]
Drexel University in Philadelphia has created a solution for students who need to use a computer on campus but don’t have immediate access to one of their own: A free MacBook vending machine. Ok, so it’s not exactly a vending machine, and the computers are only loaned to the students for free 5-hour intervals, but [...]
Majic Jungle Software, the developer behind Chopper 2 for iOS and Mac, has released its latest game at last. The Blockheads (free) is a “2.5D” take on the exploration and building formula of Minecraft, offering a large block-based world but presenting it from a side-on view rather than a first-person perspective. Unlike the similar Junk [...]
I tote around a handy iLuv USB hub with built-in Ethernet, but the company makes a ton of accessories. Docks, cases, speakers and more can be had from iLuv, and there are a few new items of note from CES 2013 to show you. First, the Aud 5 Speaker Dock is now equipped with a [...]
Beats Audio CEO and Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine has told AllThingsD that he “spent about three years” trying to convince Steve Jobs that Apple should launch its own subscription-based streaming music service. Iovine recounted the effort while talking about his own upcoming music service, Daisy, which has musician Trent Reznor as its chief creative officer. [...]
It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) [...]
It would appear that Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo is performing an about-face with regard to supporting the iPhone on its network. Following reports late last year that it had seen record defections of customers to other carriers, the company’s president now says it is open to carrying Apple’s smartphone, something it has been openly [...]
Throughout the history of Apple, the United States has been the company’s largest market. That’s set to change — while on his trip to China, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes that China will become the largest market for the company’s products. Speaking to the state-run Xinhua News, Cook said that “China is [...]
Apple’s adding a big name to the executive suites in March. Xerox executive vice president and CFO Luca Maestri has been named as the new corporate controller of Apple. Maestri will continue to work at Xerox through February 28 to “help manage the financial leadership transition.” Maestri has been with Xerox for about two years, [...]
German Apple TV users have a new app and service on their devices. Matthew Panzarino at The Next Web reports that German subscription video on demand service Watchever has found a place on the home screen of the diminutive puck. Watchever is similar to Hulu, offering German, European, and international TV series and movies. For [...]
Apple was a prominent part of CES even though it didn’t have a physical presence at the trade show. Not only were there a large number of iOS and OS X vendors on the show floor, Apple was also awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy for its iCloud service. As reported by The Loop, the [...]
Most dogs and outdoor cats like to wander when they are left outside. Cats, especially, will disappear for the day on some adventure in your neighborhood. If you are concerned or curious about their travels, an upcoming product called Tractive will let you see where they go when they meander Tractive is a small GPS [...]
We’ve written an awful lot regarding patents in the past 12 months. As it turns out, during that time Apple has been awarded a quite a few new ones for us to spend the next several decades talking about. In fact, The New York Times reports that 1 Infinite Loop was awarded 1,136 new patents [...]
iFile Browser is a handle little US $2.99 utility for iOS. It lets you access, organize and edit files that are stored on your iOS device or a file that is in the cloud, either stored on iCloud or Dropbox. Once the app is set up you can view and edit any document, even if [...]
Wired has an interesting — although certainly not unexpected — look at how Apple has managed to have a massive impact on this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas without having any official presence at the show. As the piece points out, a large percentage of products being shown at the event have to [...]
You may have already pre-orded FreedomPop’s almost-too-good-to-be-true iPhone accessory back in May, but it seems the FCC is still in the process of approving the device. FreedomPop CEO Stephen Stokols told FierceWireless that the agency is taking issue with the sleeve’s design, noting that the snap-on case places the built-in WiMAX radio right next to [...]
Sina Technology sat down with Tim Cook while he was in China and talked about Apple’s growing presence in the Asian country. Not surprisingly, Cook fielded a question about China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless carrier and the only major Chinese carrier to not sell the iPhone. Cook confirmed he met with China Mobile in [...]
Apple has enjoyed a recent burst of success in China, with the new iPad mini selling out faster than supplies can be replenished, but rather than sitting back and enjoying the regional boom, the company is going on the offensive with a new Chinese New Year Gift Guide. M.I.C. Gadget reports that the new buyers [...]
We’ve been hearing rumors of a cheaper iPhone for longer than we’d care to remember, and while everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg is trumpeting the budget iPhone horn, Apple’s own Phil Schiller is doing his best to put an end to it. TNW reports that in an interview with China’s Shanghai Evening [...]
In our August review of PowerCam (US$0.99), we called it “…a grab bag of photo tools wrapped up into one app.” That bag gets a little nicer with version 2.1, which adds some nice new effects, improves the collage feature with new templates and a “freestyle” option and more. It’s super handy and useful. Here’s [...]
It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) [...]
Rovio Entertainment has released version 1.4 of Angry Birds Space to the App Store. The free update is sure to make Angry Bird fans happy. Users now have another 30 levels to sling their way through as the birds find themselves in a new galaxy called “Splash” with all new water-based planets, underseas life, and [...]
On October 23, 2012 when Apple announced the 4th-generation iPad and iPad mini, the TUAW newsroom was abuzz with questions, one of which was “How many owners of 3rd-generation iPads are going to get rid of their ‘old’ devices to get a new iPad-” Thanks to Gazelle, a company that accepts trade-ins of Apple gear [...]
While corporations — including Apple — keep financial information locked away except for those items that require public disclosure, the job of Wall Street analysts like Horace Dediu of Asymco is to take bits of information scattered hither and yon and meld them into a more realistic model of how a company is performing. Dediu [...]
In a Bloomberg Businessweek article this week, writers Ashlee Vance and Aaron Ricadela reveal a conversation between former HP CEO Mark Hurd and Steve Jobs that had not been previously disclosed. That article asks whether or not current HP CEO Meg Whitman can save the company that once ruled Silicon Valley but is now seemingly [...]
In many ways, the design of Apple Stores reflects greatly on the attention to detail and design savvy of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He was a stickler for detail, often obsessing over the placement of individual pixels on a screen or the exact shade of a particular case color. ifoAppleStore has a story today [...]
Tim Cook is visiting China this week, and confirmed that the cellular version of Apple’s iPad mini will become available in January while talking with Chinese reporters. Cook also noted that the country’s approval process prolongs release schedules, and that’s something Apple is working to improve. Cook also said that he has plans for 25 [...]
Apple has settled a lawsuit with Swiss photographer Sabine Liewald over the illegal use of his piece titled “Eye Closeup,” according to CNET. The company and Liewald originally had an agreement in place to use the image, but Liewald maintained in a court filing that the only permission he gave Apple regarding the photograph was [...]
A giant iPhone installation was revealed in St. Petersburg, Russia today in honor of the late Steve Jobs. Designed by St. Petersburg native Gleb Tarasov, the larger-than-life iPhone is an imitation of a black, “late model” version of Apple’s iconic device, according to RIA Novosti. There’s no giant touch screen, but the iPhone does feature [...]
What’s going to be the next pull to refresh or swipe to delete- The Industry has peered into its crystal ball and come up with what it thinks (or hopes) are the 13 most prominent trends we’re going to be seeing in app design for 2013 — whether we want them or not. Flat design [...]
Sometimes you just need to talk on your iPhone right NOW, and even the tedious task of fetching the device from your pocket or purse is just too big of a delay to handle. If this sounds like you, then you’re going to want to pay very close attention to the following video, as it [...]
After having been yanked from the App Store by Apple in July, an app called Clueful has sound a second chance at life on the web. Created by Bitdefender, the app was designed to present a searchable database of other iOS apps and information on what ways they share your personal data. Neither Apple nor [...]
When I think of search I pretty much think of Google. I have tried Bing, and while it is pretty, a lot of my searches just don’t turn out as well as they do on Google. If you’d like to try something completely different, let me suggest you get a look at Izik, which is [...]
Official Twitter desktop client TweetDeck has just received a pretty significant update for OS X. The client now allows users to embed tweets directly from the app itself. Previously users had to use Chrome or the web client to embed tweets in their blogs and websites. The update also brings over 90 bug fixes and [...]
Apple has released an EFI Firmware Update 2.6 for mid-2012 MacBook Air models. The update fixes several annoying bugs that have been reported in Apple’s online help discussion forums. From Apple’s knowledge base article: About MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.6 This update is recommended for MacBook Air (mid 2012) models. This update fixes a [...]
The Atlantic has an article up about Kevin Russ, a prolific and popular nature photographer who has amassed a significant following with his haunting photos of the American West. While the content of Russ’s still life snaps has garnered much attention, so has his camera of choice: the iPhone. The photographer says he prefers the [...]
Enter your email address below to receive updates each time we publish new content.
